Paraguay is 1.07× the size of Japan

Paraguay covers about 400,000 km² (154,000 mi²) and Japan about 374,000 km² (144,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

400,000km²Paraguay
374,000km²Japan

500 km

Paraguay
Japan

What fits

Japan is 93% of the size of Paraguay.
Paraguay is larger by 26,400 km² (10,200 mi²), which is 7.1% of the area of Japan.
Measured in Belgiums: Paraguay is about 13.0, Japan about 12.2.

How they differ

Paraguay is larger, but Japan has the larger population: 123.8 million against 6.8 million, 18.2× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 331 in Japan against 17 in Paraguay: Japan is 19.5× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 17,800 km apart.
On a standard web map Japan looks larger than Paraguay: Paraguay at 23°S is drawn about 1.2× too large and Japan at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Japan as 1.25× the size of Paraguay, when Paraguay is 1.07× the size of Japan.
Together Paraguay and Japan cover 773,000 km², close to the size of Turkey (780,000 km², 0.9% bigger).
The gap between them, 26,400 km², is about the size of Equatorial Guinea (26,700 km²).
At Japan's density, Paraguay would have 132.6 million people (it has 6.8 million). At Paraguay's density, Japan would have 6.4 million (it has 123.8 million).
Japan's centre is 60.6° of latitude, about 6,740 km, farther north than Paraguay's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Paraguay	1.07×
More people	Japan	18.2×
More crowded	Japan	19.5×
Farther north	Japan	60.6° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Japan	1.6× against 1.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Paraguay	Japan
Belgium 30,700 km²	13.0×	12.2×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.64×	1.53×
Germany 358,000 km²	1.12×	1.04×
France 548,000 km²	0.73×	0.68×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.13×	0.12×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.05×	0.04×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Paraguay	Japan
Area, main territory	400,000 km²154,000 mi²	374,000 km²144,000 mi²
Population	6.8 millionWikidata, 2017	123.8 millionWikidata, 2024
Density	17 per km²	331 per km²
Official area	407,000 km²Wikidata	378,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Asunción	Tokyo
Latitude range	28°S to 19°S	24°N to 46°N
Continent	South America	Asia

Population: Wikidata 2017 and Wikidata 2024, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 407,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 400,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 378,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 374,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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